A Soul That Is Composed and Quieted

I remember when I was a little girl, we had a dog named "Taco." Taco was a small black dog with the largest body and smallest head you ever saw! She grew that way after giving birth to litter after litter of pups until she couldn't have anymore. But, it seemed that Taco was always expecting puppies! It was so sweet to watch those little helpless babes rooting around looking for a source of nourishment. They would crawl around, digging with their noses, their eyes still sealed tight, pushing other puppies off the "food chain," just struggling to get enough for themselves!

Psalm 131:2 says "Surely, I have composed and quited my soul; like a weaned child rests against his mother, my soul is like a weaned child within me."

The psalmist is saying that he learned not to be driven like a baby who is always "rooting" and searching; smelling out their next meal, as a means of finding contentment. Contentment is a learned product of peace, but it does NOT come naturally. These are the words of one who has learned to relax so that contentment could abound, in the midst of calamity, chaos and pain.

I visited with a precious friend today who is the midst of chaos, calamity and pain, and the thing she desires more than anything else in her life, is to have a spirit that is composed and quited, in the presence of her Heavenly Father. Don't we all want to be able to understand what it takes to be truly content? To be truly content in the midst of any circumstance. This kind of contentment is a difficult concept to understand, but even a more difficult concept to live.

It isn't difficult because it's hard to acheive, but because it's easy. Charles Spurgeon, a preacher from the 1800's said "It is not our littleness that hinders Christ; but our bigness. Not our weakness but our strength. It is not our darkness, but our own light that holds back the hand of God."

All it takes is remembering God's promises; believing them; and allowing God to fill us . . . rather than all the time we waste thinking we are big enough, strong enough and able in our own power to create some false sense of quiet. It's like we're rooting around, and constantly searching to fill the God size hole in our lives, that can only be filled with God!

So, I realize that contentment grows out of peace and peace flows from quieting our soul. Quieting our soul is a decision we make to mature in the Spirit. We need to get off of breast milk, and be nourished on the solid food of the Word of God.